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ed to Israel from St. Petersburg,
Russia, about 21/2 years ago.
The existence of an area in the
brain that controls the sense of
sight and the division of that
area into sub-zones dealing with
different aspects of sight have
been known to scientists for only
a few years. These aspects in-
clude color, movement, depth,
form, orientation, perception of
complex forms such as faces, and
others. It is not uncommon that
persons who have suffered brain
•damage retain their sight but
can no longer distinguish specif-
ic aspects such as colors or iden-
tify persons or objects.
Dr. Yakovlev and Professor
Hochstein, together with Dr. Ma-
rina Pavlovskaya and Professor
. Baruch Blum of Tel Aviv Uni-
versity, Professors Alexander
Cooperman and Dov Sagi of the
Weizmann Institute of Science,
and Dr. Nahum Soroker and
Professor Zeev Groswasser of '
Levenstein Hospital are work-
. ing to further define these vari-
ous "sight areas" of the brain and
to find new ways in which peo-
ple who have suffered brain dam-
. age can be retrained and
rehabilitated. The research is be-
ing supported by the Ministry of
Science and the Arts.
The researchers include four
immigrant scientists (Dr.
Yakovlev among them), former-
ly of the Pavlov Institute in St.
Petersburg, Russia, who spe-
cialized in this type of work.
Dr. Yakovlev has sought in his
research to determine the
process of learning through sight
by studying brain activity at the
moment that observation and re-
action to a visual stimulus was
taking place — specifically the
recognition and memory of a
complex form. The researchers
say this is the first time that elec-
trical brain activity has been doc-
umented while this process of
learning is taking place.
Through these studies of
changes in brain activity it has
been possible to identify which
cells react electrically to specific
visual stimuli. Some of the cells
reacted even after the stimuli
ended, thus becoming a memo-
ry resource.
The Hebrew University re-
searchers are hopeful that the
knowledge gained through this
research with scientists from oth-
er institutions, as well as with
Professor Daniel Amit of the
Center for Neural Computation
at the Hebrew University, will
lead to new methods of treating
those brain-damaged patients
who are unable to distinguish
and remember shapes. The hope
is that such learning activity can,
through training, be carried out
in other parts of the brain.
Professor Hochstein said that
he looks forward to greater co-
operation between Israeli and
Russian scientists working in
this area. D
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